🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 19

“Almet,” said he, “thou has devoted thy life to meditation, that thy counsel might deliver ignorance from the mazes of error, and deter presumption from the precipice of guilt; but the book of nature thou hast read without understanding: it is again open before thee: look up, consider it, and be wise.”

Who acts: Almet, counsel, book · What happens: say, devote, deliver, deter, read, be · To what, where: life, meditation, that, mazes, presumption, precipice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almet, counsel, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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